Frances Heard Maclin with a souvenir of the original Motown building. (The Birmingham News / Linda Stelter)

Frances Heard Maclin — a longtime librarian at Motown Records and the author of "I Remember Motown: When We Were Just Family" — will be part of a Local Authors Expo on Dec. 4 at the Birmingham Public Library.

More than 100 writers from the Birmingham area will sell and sign copies of their books, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on the first floor of the downtown building, 2100 Park Place.

Maclin, 71, a Birmingham resident, wrote and self-published a memoir through Yorkshire Publishing ($12.99, paperback), offering her perspective on the early years of the record label.

She worked at Motown for 25 years, 1961-1986. Maclin was the original library director there, working alongside founder Berry Gordy and his wife at the time, Raynoma.

In her book, Maclin talks about some of her encounters with artists such as the Temptations, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5.

Maclin also discusses the intimate atmosphere at Motown when the label was located in a small house in Detroit.

"I don’t think any of us realized at the time, the magnitude of what Motown would become," she said. "We knew that we were special because of the artists who came our way. But it was just a job that I loved and the people I worked with were close, like family."